SOLD 210mm yanagiba

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$45 shipped

210mm long machi to tip
29mm tall
3mm spine
196mm edge

Sharpened and some bevel work. Bevel is concave, so I used aoto finger stones after bench stones to make it look more even again. It will be a decent amount of work bevel the bevels flattens out. Steel feels like great white 2, very aggressive and hair catching. More aggressive than Sakai white has usually been for me, which often leans crisp but buttery. A low spots at the tip near the shinogi, and 1/3 toward the tip near the edge. The concavity spans the middle 1/2 of the blade road, while the top and bottom make contact. Except at the heel. Only near the edge makes contact at the portion on a bench stone. Blade is straightened and ura is flat at the edge. Horn ferrule, glued because it was loose. Ferrule has bubbling somehow, which was how I got it. Handle has slight uptilt, which does actually help with finger clearance for short height knives. Ferrule isn't perfectly flush with the wood. Slight mismatch in dimensional cross section. Lacquer still on blade face. No carbon migration on the lam line, or forge weld artifacts, so it seems prelaminated, but forged because of the wavy lam line.

 

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[Hauscarl]

Anything Dean has worked on is going to punch way above its price in performance. I’ve bought a number of his souped up random finds and they are some of my sharpest and most interesting knives. This is a no brainer and I’d have bought by now were I not lefty. Buy with confidence (and curiosity).